Believe Quote by Maxwell Perkins

“Shame on the person who judges a Book by its cover without first reading the content: For you are not competent enough to perceive…

— Shenica Coleman

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

— Stephen King

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

— Edward Abbey

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the…

— Stephen King

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I…

— George Burns

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the…

— Louise Erdrich

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested…

— Edward Gibbon

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not…

— Akhil Sharma

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

— Umberto Eco